News from The Examiner, covering Armonk-North Castle, Briarcliff, Chappaqua-New Castle, Mount Kisco, Mount Pleasant, Pleasantville, Westchester County, NY.
Westchester-based writer Susan Berliner has just published her latest book, “Crash Effect and Other Weird Stories.” A London native who has called Yorktown home for the past 50 years, Berliner previews her latest work and explains her evolution from journalism
Read MoreA dog may be man’s best friend, but for Brian Benson his seven-year-old yellow Labrador Magnus is more like his lifeline. A dog lover since childhood, Benson originally adopted Magnus about five years ago as a family pet but noticed
Read MoreA 28-year-old Suffolk County man wanted by multiple police agencies for robberies throughout the metropolitan area was taken into custody early last Wednesday morning by Westchester County police following holdups of two area gas stations. Jose Nieves, of Brentwood, N.Y.,
Read MoreThe Mount Kisco Planning Board must determine whether the impacts of a 140-foot-tall cell tower proposed on a 25-acre parcel can be sufficiently mitigated with a series of steps outlined last week by a village consultant. Michael Musso, of HDR
Read MoreThe organ may not generally be associated with jazz music, although it’s hardly an uncommon sight or sound in the genre. But whatever the public’s perception is, New York City organist Brian Charette has fashioned quite a career sitting at
Read MoreEditor’s Note: The print version of this article incorrectly reported that all three candidates are attorneys. Andrea D’Aria is a legal assistant. The Examiner regrets the error. Three Pleasantville residents are vying for village justice later this month, a position that
Read MoreCreating a civic space at the north end of Memorial Plaza is coming closer to reality after the Pleasantville Village Board approved payment last week to landscape architects for its design. The village is paying Wagner Hodgson Landscape Architects $65,900
Read MoreMount Pleasant officials are weighing a new local law that would impose harsher penalties against retail establishments that sell cannabis products in town after two convenience stores were recently caught violating the law. On Mar. 14, the Town Board will
Read MoreHealth and environmental experts and town personnel updated North Castle residents last week who have been concerned over possible PFAS contamination in their drinking water and how they can monitor and remediate their water sources. At a Mar. 1 public forum
Read MoreThe North Castle Republican Committee completed its ticket last week for this year’s general election with two first-time candidates set to run for town council seats. Last Thursday, the committee announced that Planning Board member Larry Ruisi and attorney Jaclyn
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